RYAN PETER   2011   
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Contact

ryan@ryanpeter.com


Current

Never-Dying Worm, curated by Marina Roy, AVAH Library Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, until February 4th, 2012 (more info here)


Solo Exhibitions

Impossible But True, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by Jenn Jackson, Lucky's Gallery, Vancouver, 2011

SPACETIME!, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2010 (more info here)

This Is The Future, The Rest Is History, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by TARL, 1447 21st Ave, Seattle, 2009

Abceefhkortttuu, collaborative exhibition with Raymond Boisjoly, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC, 2009

extended periods of time.  Occasional napping may be, collaborative exhibition with Abbas Akhavan, AMS Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2009


Group Exhibitions

Some Paintings, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, August, 2011

Alone in the Wilderness, The VERA Project, Seattle, August, 2011

So Many Let Downs Before We Get Up..., curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, 2011

Art Toronto, Republic Gallery, Toronto, 2010

Saturday Is The New Sunday, collaboration with Raymond Boisjoly, Every Letter In The Alphabet, Vancouver, 2010

FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, 2010

Snow, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, 2010

Group Show, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, 2010

Exercises In Seeing, collaboration with Raymond Boisjoly, curated by Post Brothers, Queen's Nails Projects, San Francisco, 2009

11th Annual RBC Painting Competition, Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, and The Power Plant, Toronto, 2009

The Sooner The Better Late Than Never, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, 2008

The Dead, The University of British Columbia, Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver, 2008

Showroom, collaboration with Kristina Lee Podesva, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A), Vancouver, 2008

Being There and Elsewhere, Organ Artist-Run Centre, Chongqing, China, 2008

Mirror Mirror 2007: Little Landscapes & Miniature Worlds, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC

Oh What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, 2007
           
1ST ART! Invitational, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, 2004

CULTURE: Artificial Conditions, Stride Gallery, Calgary, 2004


Curating
                                  
Claude Breeze and Friends, curatorial collaboration under the auspices of Old Friends, AMS Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2011

Funny Business, curatorial collaboration under the auspices of Old Friends, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, 2010


Education 
                                  
Master of Fine Arts, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2008

Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2004


Awards

Semi-finalist, 11th Annual RBC Painting Competition, 2009

BC Binning Graduate Fellowship, UBC, 2007

BC Award, BMO Financial Group's 1st ART! Invitational Student Art Competition, 2004


Scholarships and Bursaries

Senior Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, 2007

Senior Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, 2006

Helen Pitt Bursary in Fine Arts, 2004

Roy Kiyooka Memorial Bursary in Fine Arts, 2003


Guest Lectures/Presentations

Artist Talk (with Raymond Boisjoly), The Western Bridge, Seattle, 2009


Teaching

Sessional Lecturer, Intermediate Drawing 2 (VISA 321), Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2012 (current)

Sessional Lecturer, Introductory Studio (VISA 180), Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2010


Bibliography

Jessica Powers, "Some Humans and Nature", Art Slant, August 7, 2011, http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/24895

Allison Collins, "Wine, Straightforward Meaninglessness, and Other Indecipherable Gestures", Art Slant, March 7, 2011,
http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/22088

PaperWait Volume 12, aceartinc., 2010

Marsha Lederman, "Review, SPACETIME!", The Globe and Mail, July 5, 2010
(download PDF)

Malcolm Parry, "Painted Ladies For A Celebrity Crowd", Vancouver Sun, Februaruy 13, 2010

Chris Fitzpatrick, "I'll Find It If You Stop Talking", Art Slant, December 29, 2009, http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/12284

Regina Hackett, "At the end of '09 - Up and at 'em", Another Bouncing Ball, Artsjournal Weblog, December 29, 2009
http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2009/12/at-the-end-of-09---up-and-at-e.html

Jen Graves, "TARL Is The Future", The Stranger, December 22, 2009, http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/in-art-news/Content?oid=3041993

Leah Sandals. "Brush to Judgement", The National Post, October 26, 2009, Arts and Life Section, pgs 6 - 7.

RBC Painting Competition (exh. cat.), Royal Bank of Canada, 2009

Jacqueline Mabey. “Touch Me I’m Sick”, The Sooner The Better Late Than Never (exh. cat.). The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008. (download PDF)

"The Black and White Issue", one cool word magazine, Autumn, 2007, pg 25.

Monica Rudd, “Belkin exhibit: spookily exciting”, The Peak, no.7, vol.125, Art Gallery section, February 19, 2007.

Peter Clark, “Oh what a blow that show gave me!”, The Ubyssey, February 16, 2007, Culture section.